The Aperture of Awareness

Everything is created through connection, including consciousness itself. When describing Philokosmia and consciousness I often use the philosophical riddle ‘if a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?’

Because I don't think it does!

Think of it this way, ‘if a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to see it, does it make a sight?’

Philokosmia says no.

When you break it down, it starts to explain some of the most unexplained phenomena we encounter.

When a tree falls, it creates pressure waves from kinetic energy variations in air density rippling through the environment. But without a biological receiver, there is still total silence. Those waves reach the human (or any other) ear, move through the fluid of the cochlea, and eventually fire off electrical signals in the nerves.

Even at this point, there is no ‘hearing’ and no ‘sound.’

The electrical signals reach the brain, and only then does the awareness of consciousness and the ‘hearing’ occur. That subjective experience of the observer connecting up the data that renders the ‘crash’ sound of the tree in their stream of consciousness. The sound does not exist in the tree, the air, or the neurons; it exists in the relationship between them and your awareness. It comes into existence at the precise meeting point between kinetic energy and the internal stream of consciousness syncing up.

Remove the tree - no sound.

Remove the air - no sound.

Remove the ear - no sound

Remove the neurons and the conscious awareness and there is no sound.

If no one is there to hear it, it doesn't make a sound.

Now you are the on board with the concept, we can dive deeper and be ready…

…your experience of the world is about to change.

That single moment of awareness requires the entire universe to cooperate. It requires gravity to exist and pull the tree to the Earth; it requires atmospheric pressure; it requires the water, the sun, and the evolution of photosynthesis that created the tree in the first place. Simultaneously, it requires the evolution of the ear.

Every relationship in every level in the universe must come together in a perfect orchestration to create that single ‘aperture’ of awareness. That specific point of consciousness where sound is finally rendered and becomes real.

Remove any relationship, any element - no sound!

Now, this then applies to everything. Every sound, every sight, every sense you have right now, is created because your awareness exists for it to sync up with and be rendered. All of those potential energy transfers reaching out ready to become a reality, that have no consciousness to make them exist. Without you, your universe does not exist…

…Without consciousness, there is no universe!

You may be thinking, wait, hang on, if all humans or all consciousness beings disappeared tomorrow, all the stuff would be there?

Think of our tree that may or may not have fallen or indeed made a sound.

Where exactly does the tree end and the environment begin? The tree is constantly breathing the atmosphere, drinking the soil, and absorbing the sun. The idea that the tree is a separate, standalone "object" is not a physical fact, it is a mental boundary. The tree is shaped by the world and Environment, without this it would not exist.

At the deepest subatomic level, quantum mechanics proves that matter does not exist as a solid ‘thing’ until it is observed. Before observation, a particle is just an undefined unconnected wave of potential; pure, formless potential.

Without a subject, there is no object.

The universe is actually single, undivided, continuous quantum energy.

If you remove all conscious beings tomorrow, the lens vanishes. The ability for that energy to connect up, for the circuit to form and create the reality we experience has been broken.

Without an observer having an aperture of awareness to force the quantum potential to stabilise into what we are conditioned to believe it to be, to what we ‘know.’ Our stable coherent world that gives us the sense of ourselves, stability and safety…meaning…

…has vanished.

There are similarities with language, these shapes, squiggles of words you ‘read’ give you a reality you are creating.  What was a tree before it was a ‘tree.’ Did it still have the same meaning we give to it as a ‘tree’ or was it a ‘ghbsu’ or indeed before language, many different ‘things’ to many different apertures of awareness.  

Language reassures us into meaning.

We narrate our reality to maintain stability.

My 3 year old son said to me, ‘what does mean, mean?’

…and it made me realise that the meaning of any word is simply the mean average of what we collectively agree the word to mean. And this changes over time. Words stay the same but the meaning drastically changes based on the people that use that word as part of stabilising their world into a reality that makes sense to them. Different apertures of awareness change with meaning of every word.

I did warn you! The universe has stopped being a collection of distinct ‘objects’ we label up with words and is now a single, formless ocean of infinite potential.

‘I’ ‘hope’ ‘you’ ‘are’ ‘ok’